Our opinion of others is not so variable as our opinion of ourselves.
It is not in everyone's power to secure wealth, office, or honors; but everyone may be good, generous, and wise.
Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers.
Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.
The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.
It is unjust to exact that men shall do out of deference to our advice what they have no desire to do for themselves.